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Apple's tribute to Steve Jobs, one year on.
Just the concept of using time for the logical clock is sketchy. It's not monotonically increasing, it drifts, it can go decrease, etc... Curious what their cross host/region ordering and consistency looks like.
Remembering Steve: A message from Tim Cook
That is the reason Siemens actually became a bank, so they could lend to their customers. Its a weird situation.
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This is not a journal. Authority or expertise is not evidence of the truth of what someone writes, but for most of us, in the absence of the time or expertise to evaluate the evidence, it often serves as a useful shortcut to determine what amount of trust to assign to a statement.

I for one am not about to go chase down every potential citation about a subject I don't know anything about just in order to fully evaluate his remark on its merits just because the subject is somewhat interesting to read about.

In that situation, authority and expertise is important - you are perfectly justified that on average you will do better if you take medical advice from a doctor than a random person, for example.
I wonder if this might be a game changer for software like Matlab, SAS, et al. A licence would buy you the right to one install locally and one on a cloud server. (Although last time I had anything to do with Matlab licensing and user negotiation, they move at a pace common to that of glaciers. With the same temperature.)
What a load of bollocks. If your job is to write methods to reverse strings then you are unqualified, otherwise I wouldn't give a shit whether a candidate can reverse a string. Why would I want to know if someone can reverse a string if the job is to maintain a web app?

A few questions for you. How old are you? Have you hired developers before? Truthfully, have you ever had to reverse a string under pressure at your current job.
some context for slide 99? (which says "screw HN")
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Do you have a link, by any chance?
Apple makes most of their (enormous piles of) money from hardware, yet the only options on here are Apple (apps) and Apple (iTunes). Bizarre.
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There was a recent story here claiming python was in decline, guessing it's that?
Anand is probably talking more about Windows 8 tablets. We're already getting Ivy Bridge based tablets, so it's obvious that we're going to get Haswell tablets. The article just shows us how compelling those tablets are going to be, as long as you don't paying a few extra dollars.

I suspect that this also means that we're going to get Haswell based Android tablets, which along with initiatives like Ubuntu for Android might be really compelling to a certain subset of HN readers.
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Lets go easy on the virtual brain parts and hype. These approaches basically all consider some simple, fixed function f that is parameterized by some unknown numbers W, and everything comes down to finding the numbers W that give some desired result (for voice recognition example, correct answers to a huge dataset of pairs of f( <some sound wave features> ) = <some word>). Now, it is hard to do this efficiently and it's all very interesting, but are we going to reduce AI to finding a conveniently-tuned input -> output function? This is much closer to simple regression than a thinking brain.

Also, this approach is not new but has been around since 1980's. We do have a richer family of models to draw from and a few new tricks, but much of the progress comes primarily from faster computers and infrastructure.

The correct article is as follows:
Google is building an amazing piece of infrastructure that allows them to run stochastic gradient descent across many machines very quickly. This engineering feat is particularly convenient for a certain family of models that have been around for the last many years and, as it turns out, scaling up these models actually seems to work well in several common and important scenarios. Equipped with this hammer, Google is currently busy trying to figure out just how many of their problems are a nail.
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some guide to doses far below recreational use - looks like 0.15mg per Kg or less might do. I have history of depression in my family - so this is great news.
Would it be possible for you to generate a HD version of the "Graphical representation of words frequency" image? It would look great as a poster.
just curious, why is the link "apple.com/?hn" ?
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Saw the talk in-person at Pycon South Africa this morning. Excellent presentation - thanks Armin.
He might be also alluding to recent (~few months) influx of Rails and Node.js related stories.
I'm going to post something on HN to highlight that discovery!
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It was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the recent discussions on HN about Python being in decline.
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I am racist and sexist and I'm very confident in the quality of my understanding of the world compared to that of egalitarians. I strongly believe that the present received wisdom in the West regarding race and sex will be viewed in the future as some sort of mass delusion, or possibly a kind of atheistic Christianity-substitute heavy on self-flagellation.
Hello,

Your new account has rapidly got a bunch of down votes. HN likes constructive thoughtful comments. Aggressive comments, even if correct, will likely get down votes.

"Old as fuck" is going to be down voted to oblivion, and risks the account being hell-banned.

"This is very old. I'm surprised HN readers are not already aware of it" may get down votes (it doesn't add anything to the conversation) but will probably be tolerated.

"This is very old. Here are some similar things / here's the theory behind it / here's an example of more modern versions / etc" will probably get a few up votes.

HN probably benefits more from people visiting the New tab and up voting good stories (and flagging the spam) than from people posting comments like "Old as fuck" on items they don't like.

Welcome to HN! (Though I suspect with a username like Trool that yours is a throwaway account.)
Because http://www.apple.com was submitted 600+ days ago and HN does not allow reposts.
Because the link has been posted before, to get around the duplicate detection you append meaningless GET params.
I found once that 3.6 - 3*1.2 == 0 was false in C, and subsequently in all the languages I could find.

I suspect it is due to the fact that those number have an infinite binary expansion...
If you like this video you would like our creation Steve Jobs Timeline as well - www.nuskhalabs.com and http://tmblr.co/Zpw4yxUgp9Mi
I don't really have time to google everything or to go on and ask everyone I meet: "Hey .. how are you? Do you know some cool stuff about computers and IT that you could share with me... see I'm trying to learn new stuff".. This is why i just follow some forums and communities based around Comp Sci (i.e. hacker news). So I will agree to disagree with you; i think that this is a very interesting link and a good thread; I learn new stuff I wouldn't have discovered otherwise.

If you knew about this.. you could have just ignored it and not waste your time commenting on it. Let it be useful for the n00bs (i.e. me).
Hello if you like Apple.com new video you will certainly like our tribute as well - http://tmblr.co/Zpw4yxUgp9Mi
wtf way to start by trolling PHP?
See also the film "Gone Baby Gone" [1], a really good film (and book) that had its release delayed due to the search for Madeleine McCann [2]

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[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCa...
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So only LinkedIn sells data? I find that a bit surprising.
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On slide 27 [1] it's shown that I can customize colors of Elements pane. It's possible to customize Sources panel? Would be cool to have solarized theme here.

[1] http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/devtools-tips-and-tricks/#...
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yea you can also have premium accounts for job hunters or employer, they half assed it
Best slide for me was "worry less & get stuff done". Good advice.
/dev/zero is probably faster
the problem with amazon is that even though it is not a profitable component, it costs more in shopping on average than what the program costs, but they have found that the prime users purchase more on the program
Remembering Steve - I want to put dent in to the Universe
We have modified our Home Page to give tribute to Steve Jobs. Please find more details on our tumblr blog regarding the new App called Steve Jobs timeline. nuskhalabs.tumblr.com
With Firefox (15.0.1) I get some really, really strange results with the second image.

When I opened it the first time, or everytime I press Ctrl+Shift+R it works, but it shows the URL, and a litte icon in the upper left corner: http://i.imgur.com/B7jFE.png

If I press F5 or Ctrl+R it doesnt work, just as you said.
> overwhelmed by the death of a celebrity stranger

Jobs, like Lennon, was not just a celebrity. Both stood for what they believed and, by doing so, inspired countless others to do better. I know working with him was impossibly painful, but I wouldn't have thought twice at the possibility.

For some, that may sound masochistic, but, when my muscles hurt after a workout, I remind myself the next time I'll be running longer and faster. The people who work at Apple touch the lives of countless others and their quest for merging technology and art inspires us.

I don't think I would have been the same engineer I am now had I not used an Apple II+ as my first computer and had I not opened the case and been struck by its absolute elegance - if you are reading this, thanks, Woz, for being our profession's Mozart.

When I go over a post I made here (doing it right now, and there are few things humbler, in the literary sense, than a discussion board post), rephrasing everything until I'm happy with it, I feel satisfied you'll read something much better than what I would be able to do in a couple seconds, even if you miss the cut/copy/paste/type action.
The sandbox they provide is even worse in terms of response times.
> Every major PHP framework uses both namespacing and closures.

No True Scotsman argument.

> The PHP OO model is more traditional and Java-like, but that doesn't implicitly make it worse or behind the times.

I don't care for fashion, so "behind the times" is neither here nor there, however a Java like OO model is definitely worse on most axes except foot-shooting and style-uniformity for large teams. If I want strong typing I want a system that leverages its power such as Haskell, not something like Java where compilation errors are mostly trivial things and I still end up with null pointers all over the place which is exactly the same as the most common type of error in more powerful dynamic languages. Beyond that, saying PHP OO is like Java is doing PHP a huge service because Java started out as OO with quite a strong vision. It may not have been perfect, and it's certainly developed its warts over time, but the seed of conceptual integrity in Java's OO is an order of magnitude more robust than PHP's.

> I can't speak for the Ruby side, but on the PHP side you couldn't be more wrong.

I was specifically making a comparison between PHP and Ruby. Making a one-side claim is a nonsensical response.
That's surprising to me. I didn't expect financial transactions to create that much data. Also wouldn't most of the data be archived and only rarely be accessed?
When the == operator fails
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not a troll. I seriously don't feel anything for him more than any other human.
Perhaps more concerning is being able to use this to launch a denial of service attack on a server that accepts zipped data. Gzipped requests are unusual with HTTP (no idea how widespread support for it is), but iirc SPDY is compressed by default.
I found a similar file to this (a zip file that contains itself) and e-mailed it to a friend at work. He never received it, but I thought nothing of it (I assumed the email filters just destroyed it).

A days later the mail server stops working and the sysadmin turns up at my desk. Turns out the anti-virus scanner had been unzipping and scanning repeatedly. It eventually filled up the entire disk and bad things happened.
Page miserably fails to load on Chrome running on Ubuntu

http://imgur.com/eWREY
+1

What is fantastic about the times we live in is that finally we have companies out there having both really big data sets and hardware infrastructure allowing them to apply all these soft computing algorithms we used to learn. Google, Facebook, Apple (iTunes), Amazon, etc. they all have amazingly deep real world data sets just begging for multidimensional analysis.

What is close to insane is that practical analysis of big data is not even restricted to these top companies only, as any one of us can set up one own's computing cluster with EC2 and e.g. open-source Weka. I'm sure the next decades will surprise us with many breakthroughs and discussions on data privacy will be moving us closer and closer to total surrender...
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Am I the only one who finds it kind of sick that Apple is squeezing out as much PR as possible of the death of their former CEO?

Let the man rest in peace.
There is an interesting study link (http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR637-1.html) towards the end of this article (which was pretty good by the way). The study suggests that employer-based health care inhibits entrepreneurship. The study supports this thesis by showing that there is a spike in new business creation (in the US) for people around age 65 (presumably because they have access to medicare).
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For those having trouble with the video, http://www.apple.com/105/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memori...
My logic is that if you went to go work for Zynga and consciously ignored what you were working on (and the ethics therein) because of hopes for the big IPO exit, you are now left with no money and the last several years of your life spent on something you regret. I'm not making any statements about my opinion on Zynga, but based upon the press and popular opinion here, you can be sure there were engineers who turned a blind eye to what they were working on in hopes of striking it rich.

My point is that regardless of the monetary prospects, how you choose to spend your time matters, because the only certain thing is what you are working on now, not the payout in the future.
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That is actually really compelling.

Particularly if you can break the annual or 2-yearly contracts and allow owners to experiment with different listing sites for short periods of time (monthly listings).

This is even more compelling if you are the ones centrally managing the visibility of availability across the listing sites (so if a booking is made via site A the unavailability is reflected on site B).

The fear in making a bad marketing decision for a small holiday home owner is real. Their margins being small they can only afford 1 listing usually, 2 at a push. But just as with Open Table and restaurants, the home owner isn't really sure whether it works, or if it does whether it works better than other alternatives. Giving them the ability to see this stuff would solve a real pain point for them and truly make them happier.

Unfortunately, for some of the smaller listing sites they're likely to go out of business. In somewhere like the Lake District in the North West of England, there are about 5 or 6 listing sites but only 1 or 2 that really work... as soon as home owners have visibility of this the smaller ones are likely to sink very quickly.

Of course, this is to the advantage of home owners, but I wonder whether the smaller listings sites will see the big picture and realise that your solution is good for everyone but them. Not that they deserve to survive when all they sell is fear and very little real marketing power.
Or

$ truncate -s 17TB hugefile.dat

...which is just as pointless.
The Apple website is one of the bigger ones - and yet they essentially removed all of their products from the landing page, if anything I would guess that there will be a small dip in revenue today for the online store. I disagree that this is about PR, the people running the company lost their colleague and probably genuinely miss Steve. A somewhat classy tribute.

It also reminds everybody of their mission, contrast with HP for example who have lost their way.
Direct link to video:
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memoria...

I used Movie Player to open it (Movie -> open location)
How different will this be from the Kim Jun Il tribute?
ya fails even with safari.
Google seems to do just fine without comptent customer service. Maybe that's the key to a successful advertising platform.
Try the mp4's posted above - http://www.apple.com/105/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memori....
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There's friendly environments, and there's professional environments. You can label freely in a friendly environment, but you have to actually get to know someone socially to create that. You don't label in a professional environment.
A hash index will also require one disk seek which makes b-tree indexes and hash indexes have more similar performance than the theoretical O(log n) vs O(1) would indicate.
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It says at the top that you need to allow VLC play to play the video...
So every time someone important in the tech world dies its ok that the front page is filled with the same story but different from sources? I don't see why one can't be enough and still have some other topics. There are many stories that clearly affect the community, but you don't see them take up all 30 spots. It's not like the story wouldn't be #1 or go unnoticed.

Though the mass flagging was of course unnecessary, it's not like mods didn't see that every single post was the same thing.
I had the exact same thought when I read that, won't lie about it. But that doesn't mean you need to say it out loud. Substitute anything for "iOS/Apple" in that line, even something really dumb (say, um, "4Chan"), and it's still a dick thing to say.

I said I had the same thought, but in this particular case, that's my problem for opening a thread about Steve Jobs died a year ago, what'd you expect if not people sharing how big of an influence on their lives that man has been?
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And that's the part that Google Spanner gets around with Atomic clocks and GPS clocks.
First of all a modulo is ultra expensive, one does not simply modulo 15 when they already modulo 3 and 5.

The proper structure is if(3){if(5)}elif(5){}else{},unless anyone has a better proposition.
While of course it is possible to define abstractions that handle fizzbuzzing anything for any number, it's clear that the monoid way is a bad overweight bloated approach.

Second the example written is code bloat à la java, writing tons of stuff for no reason.

Third Ruby is a beta prototype language that doesn't have any production ready implementation.

Lastly functional and procedural programming enable you to work at the highest level of abstraction you can think of, whereas OO tends to lock you at a specific abstraction level, which is pretty low and not adapted to most cases.

I have to admit it's impressive how such a simple test can show so many failures in people's deep understanding of programming.
More because http://www.apple.com/ did not opened the Tim's note, while http://www.apple.com/?hn did.
It seems any random GET param is indeed meaningful in this case :)
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I tried a bunch of TODO and GTD apps and they always took so much time fidgeting around with that it ended up not being worth it.

Then I tried "Things", and I've been using it ever since. It just has the right combination of features that do not get in the way if you don't need them. So it might be just a case of getting something that matches the way you work.
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Well, I suppose there's not much mystery about it so it wasn't really necessary to put it in the list.
Removing their products from the landing page to pay tribute to Steve.

Would Dell or Samsung do this?
Genuine question.
Monowha?

for(var i=1;i<=100;i++) console.info(((!(i % 3) ? "Fizz" : "") + (!(i % 5) ? "Buzz" : "") + (!(i % 7) ? "Bazz" : "")) || i);
This article actually gives details of their first implementation which suggest that they could cut servers without switching to node :

http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/04/clearing-up-some-things-about...
Great Idea whichdan, the interactive route is definitely the way to go.
I'd like to know too about Kickstarter, it doesn't seem to appear on their website. Wouldn't they want to publicize it more if it was the case?
Direct download link: http://www.apple.com/105/media/us/stevejobs/stevejobs-memori... - 41 MB

(hint: I always download Apple videos (for future reference, and because my internet connection is really slow) and the trick is to replace "_r848-9dwc.mov" at the end to "_848x480.mov")
Thanks jjets, I'm going to make sure to highlight both of those facts, the ability to make a huge impact (and money), but also how hard it really is.